Oi

step one be jewish.

you need to be able to read hebrew and understand what the ugly retard at the head of the formation is telling you. so learn their language. seems like a good life in a beautiful country except the nation is full of terrible people.

actually you do get paid, but not much
strictly speaking this is not a requirement. we have bedouins and druze, a few muslims... what you need is citizenship, which you can get even in cases where you are not jewish but have a jewish parent / grandparent.

also terrible people depends on where you are, really. mostly a social economic thing

You know, loads of saffas are desperate to escape South Africa. If Israel took them in they could form a whole new brigade. Just saying.
Also, saffas are generally excellent soldiers.

you can volunteer as a non Jew, but afaik only to logistical roles, which is shit.

well i meant that's it's an unabashed ethnostate. and i'm not jewish. so me moving there and living there would be pretty stupid. it'd be like a jew moving to nazi germany.

it's complicated, you not being a jew might or might not be a problem. generally speaking there are 3 times where you not being a jew matters. getting citizenship, getting married, knowing the memes.
the first is the big one, not much you can do about that afaik. the third is just a matter of trying to fit in, it comes on its own. the second, thats the tricky part. if you want a traditional/religious jew wife, you gotta convert, orthodox conversion. its a hard and lengthy process where you are obligated to be an actual orthodox jew, which is way way way more than what most israelis do.
but besides marrying a trad/religious woman, once you get your citizenship here, you're like anybody else, unlike nazi germany you having certain genetics is a non-issue. not doing army service though, that could be an issue.
the general idea is nationalism but not religious judaism. if you're on our team, you're one of us. if you're not, you are despised. even if you're a bona fide jew.

If only there was some sort of search function on the internet to answer these types of questions

So I'd be a jew? I figured I'd stay a goy and would be fucked out of good jobs or promotion, but if I converted that would be different. Good post, thanks. Not op btw

1. Not enough of them want to escape, just like most Euro Jews thought that it's just yet another passing storm by the goys that they'll wait out as usual, until it was too late and they couldn't escape Europe any longer.
2. Even fewer wish to escape potential of death in SA just to run, what is psychologically even if not logically/statistically, the same risk of death in the Israeli military.
3. Israel has tons of minorities, but it's still, to an extant, an ethno-state by design, so taking in all the whites from SA isn't too appealing of a proposition. Same from their side, as most probably will not be interested in immigrating to a country that they share little commonality with.
4. There're SA in the IDF. Personally met 2 in the past 4 years, one's Jewish (came cause muh heritage defend fatherland) and the second
is a goy Brit that that came from SA as a tourist and fell in love with the place.
5. IDF doesn't really need the extra personal. 40% or more of conscripts are getting exempted because excess of manpower allows them to be picky. The entire foreigner "lone soldier" thing is a combination of PR, ideology and "inclusively militaristic" culture in Israel (same reason HR went extra loops to find a way to recruit literal autiststs and then give them something actually meaningful to do- eventually letting them calibrate optics and analyze aerial photos because they're surprisingly good at it).